Description of problem: OO writer crashes when a wizard eg the Letter wizard is used. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-writer-2.4.1-17.4.fc9.ppc java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.15.b09.fc9.ppc How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run open office writer 2. Select File -> Wizards -> Letter 3. Actual results: Instantly crashes Expected results: Should open the letter wizard Additional info:
Created attachment 310623 [details] Trace of crash from OO writer
Created attachment 310625 [details] Java error log related to oo crash.
I wonder if this also happens if you use libgcj ? Assuming that both are installed, you can tell OOo to use the other with tools->options->openoffice.org->java and select the "Free Software Foundation" option instead of the auto-selected "Sun Microsystems" option. And then restart OOo and try the wizards again
Created attachment 310663 [details] mapped stack
report_should_not_reach_here(char const*, int) ... os_abort inside openjdk Not sure if this is openjdk specific, but I'm fairly sure that it worked under libgcj the last time I was able to check under ppc. #3 shows how to try with libgcj to see if that theory is correct
(In reply to comment #3) > I wonder if this also happens if you use libgcj ? Yes unfortunately it does. Well the behaviour is slightly different. Instead of an absolute crash, OO locks solid and CPU usage hangs around %100 indefinately in some kind of infinite loop. This is with: libgcj-4.3.0-8.ppc If there's any way I can get useful debugging information from this, let me know.
Out of curiosity I've just tried IBM's java implementation for PPC: ibm-java-ppc-sdk-6.0-1.0.ppc.rpm (Java 1.6.0) and surprisingly this works perfectly. Obviously not an official solution however.
Can you try to reproduce this with the latest version of OpenJDK in rawhide?
This was probably http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184. It should be fixed now, at least upstream.